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Right from the start this two part mini series is disturbing. But once the titles go up so the film goes into high gear. Basically the film follows four story plots; The single mom/fake boyfriend, the schoolgirl wannabe model, a young teen on holiday with her parents and the poor Filipino family who voluntarily sell off their daughter. The first two plotlines form the bulk, with the others just cutting in.Robert Carlyle is truly frightening as the bad guy ‘businessman’ who’s just doing his job and the man behind the trafficking whilst Donald Sutherland and Mira Sorvino play the good guy counterparts.The film is graphic but not in a tittulating way, it’s a brutal portrayal of a sick world and despite being made in 2005, these sort of events are still regularly highlighted on national news or current documentaries. Although highly Americanised, this gritty 4 hour TV programme that manages to hold the attention throughout as the four separate stories unfold.Anyone who has a daughter will be terrified by this, but all will be disturbed. Definitely a film that should be seen by all, but it is upsetting on many levels, so be warned. Like they say in the film “you have to have a thick skin to do this job…” but iyou'd need to thick skinned not to be moved.

This is not easy viewing but should be compulsory. The superlative performances of all involved bring the horrific reality of modern day slavery to vivid, brutal life.

This skillfully constructed miniseries in 2 parts tells the stories of several different strands of the human trafficing market, all orchestrated by the evil character played by Robert Carlyle. There are the optimistic and naive young women (little more than girls really) who are deliberately suckered by men into believeing they are loved and wanted, encouraged to leave their home countries for a new life in the states, only to be shoved face first into brutal brothel life of the very worst order.

There are the chilren of the phillipines, sold by family members into the sex trade and the kidnapped children, stolen from their parents who will be traded internationally on the slave market.

And there are the good guys, those who are working desperately to connect the dots and smash this brutal trade, one person, one brothel, one procurer at a time. The character played my Mira Sorvino and that of her boss portrayed by Donald Sutherland stop this from being an exploitation exercise. They are the counterpoint to the horror, showing that whilst those held in the jaws of this awsomly profitable trade feel abandonded and bereft, there are those who are moving heaven and earth to stop this. Just not fast enough.

This is heartbreaking stuff. the performance of the young girl who plays Natasha is heartwrenching to watch and this left me with a wish to find something, anything I could do to stop this evil crime against humanity, going on under our very noses. This is a fictionalised account of a real situation- one none of us can turn a blind eye to. I saw the first part of this by accident, televised on Sky whilst I was on holiday in Italy. It was so good that my holiday was then dominated by combing the sky channels daily for part 2, i had to know how this ended. I had to wait almost two weeks to get back to the UK and order the DVD then a further week for it to come before I could watch part 2. get it, see it and make your friends watch it too. This cannot be missed.

A hard hitting film, it certainly does not pull any punches. The cast are amazing in it, but at the back of your mind as you watch this, you are only to aware that this is happening all over the world. People being trafficked into countries and used as slave labour, especially young females sold into the sex trade to be horrifically abused over and over again. Not for the faint hearted!

This isnt as tough or as real as the british sex traffic but its still worth a watch . yes it is rather hammy at times and there are some rather neat movie style twists but I would definately recommend it as good old fashioned north atlantic tv , just like we used to watch stuff like Holocaust or Roots and be hooked to the tv and the true life stories . There is so much sex crime v women in the news so this is still a relavent film ; showing the horrors that go on through out the world . Robert carlyle making an interesting baddy [ dont they have any real eastern europeans in canada for the part? ] and its always good to see Donald Sutherland take over the screen . cant say same for Mira Sorvino ; she is the weak link , with her plastic face and attempt to be some modern day Lindsay Wagner , she just doesnt convince . A film to make you think , as there are still slaves today .

Very distrubing film but it is a film we all should watch just to bring home the truth behind the headline in relation to 'human trafficing'.Absorbing as much as shocking & it has spurred me on to help local charities helping to fight this problem.Very easy film to follow & you feel as if you get to know the characters...you are almost there every step of their journey...travelling with them through their hopes & dreams to a world of greedy, sleezy & exploitation & then we come to the conclusion for each of the victims. A really sad film but would have to rate it excellent in exposing a world which is vibrant on our streets yet is so undetected by 'Joe Public'

Very disturbing content but the acting and action is great.Hard to believe this sort of thing happens on a regular basis but it does Robert Carliyle is a superb actor and adds to the menace of the trafficking